NY Times, Drug Approved. Is Disease Real? Fibromyalgia

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Drug Approved. Is Disease Real?

By ALEX BERENSON

Published: January 14, 2008

Fibromyalgia is a real disease. Or so says Pfizer in a new television

advertising campaign for Lyrica, the first medicine approved to treat the pain

condition, whose very existence is questioned by some doctors.

For patient advocacy groups and doctors who specialize in fibromyalgia, the

Lyrica approval is a milestone. They say they hope Lyrica and two other drugs

that may be approved this year will legitimize fibromyalgia, just as Prozac

brought depression into the mainstream.

But other doctors — including the one who wrote the 1990 paper that defined

fibromyalgia but who has since changed his mind — say that the disease does

not exist and that Lyrica and the other drugs will be taken by millions of

people who do not need them.

As diagnosed, fibromyalgia primarily affects middle-aged women and is

characterized by chronic, widespread pain of unknown origin. Many of its

sufferers

are afflicted by other similarly nebulous conditions, like irritable bowel

syndrome.

Because fibromyalgia patients typically do not respond to conventional

painkillers like aspirin, drug makers are focusing on medicines like Lyrica that

affect the brain and the perception of pain.

Advocacy groups and doctors who treat fibromyalgia estimate that 2 to 4

percent of adult Americans, as many as 10 million people, suffer from the

disorder.....

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oh yes, the brain washing tc ad's, don't get me started.

that one where the lasy is setting in artroom full of paints,paint

cleaners,ect. lol's, well I'd just have to say hey, lady, get out of

that little toxic invironment your in and you might fell better.

take some toxic drugs instead and maybe you wont. go home and test

your house for mold and mycotoxins. check that paint for mycotoxins,

check that artroom for m/m's. in other words find out whats poisoning

you. p.s mold and myco exposure doesn't mic well with other man made

chemicals and that includes toxic drugs! what? you dont believe? well

it's your life lady, gotta go, this artroom is makeing me want to

pass out.

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> _http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/14/health/14pain.html?

pagewanted=1 & _r=1_

> (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/14/health/14pain.html?

pagewanted=1 & _r=1)

>

> Drug Approved. Is Disease Real?

> By ALEX BERENSON

> Published: January 14, 2008

>

> Fibromyalgia is a real disease. Or so says Pfizer in a new

television

> advertising campaign for Lyrica, the first medicine approved to

treat the pain

> condition, whose very existence is questioned by some doctors.

>

>

>

> For patient advocacy groups and doctors who specialize in

fibromyalgia, the

> Lyrica approval is a milestone. They say they hope Lyrica and two

other drugs

> that may be approved this year will legitimize fibromyalgia, just

as Prozac

> brought depression into the mainstream.

>

>

>

> But other doctors †" including the one who wrote the 1990 paper

that defined

> fibromyalgia but who has since changed his mind †" say that the

disease does

> not exist and that Lyrica and the other drugs will be taken by

millions of

> people who do not need them.

> As diagnosed, fibromyalgia primarily affects middle-aged women and

is

> characterized by chronic, widespread pain of unknown origin. Many

of its sufferers

> are afflicted by other similarly nebulous conditions, like

irritable bowel

> syndrome.

> Because fibromyalgia patients typically do not respond to

conventional

> painkillers like aspirin, drug makers are focusing on medicines

like Lyrica that

> affect the brain and the perception of pain.

> Advocacy groups and doctors who treat fibromyalgia estimate that 2

to 4

> percent of adult Americans, as many as 10 million people, suffer

from the

> disorder.....

>

>

>

>

> **************Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in

shape.

> http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?

NCID=aolcmp00300000002489

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